Tim Dolin

Mistress of the House (eBook, PDF)

Women of Property in the Victorian Novel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This exploration of gender and property ownership in eight important novels argues that property is a decisive undercurrent in narrative structures and modes, as well as an important gender signature in society and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351917216
• Artikelnr.: 49355534

Autorenporträt

Tim Dolin

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Women, property and victorian fiction
A woman, and something more: Shirley
Cranford and its belongings
'He could get, but not keep': Villette
Crimes of property: The Moonstone
Hardy's uncovered women
Mistress of herself: Diana of the Crossways
Appendix 1: A brief summary of the laws concerning women (1854)
Appendix 2: The Caroline Norton affair
Bibliography
Index.